Disk-record-filing device.



G. E. BENDER.

DISK RECORD FILING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. 1915.

Patented J an. 1,1918.

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DISK RECORDFILING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED luuszs. 1915.

Patented. Jan. 1, 1918 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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1 E L m lil ATTORNEY UNTTEE ETATEE PATENT OFFICE. GEORGE E. B NDE OF oI-IIoAeo, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB, OF oivn rnmn 'ro FE D G.

j EAPP, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISK-BECORD-FILING DEVICE.

' Application filed June 28, 1915. Serial No. 36,681.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BEEDER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Chi Improvements in a Disk-Record-Filing Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to filing devices disk talking-machine records, my filing device being, however, also adapted for filing papers or other flat ob ects. My invention comprises a filing'unit, or a series of similar units, preferably formed of sheet metal and particularly adapted for. the ready and rapid removal from. or insertion in the same of a each adapted to hold a desired class or group of records may be mounted in a suitable cabiplates connected by cross-bars and preferablyprovided witha hand-grip and an in-[ dex or. name-plate. in front, the holder being 1 of construction.

. this means the holder is lowered into a po-.

net from which a desired unit may be partly withdrawn and depressed to a convenlent position for removing a record therefrom by a continuous movement of the hand. Eachv unit comprises :a holder comprising side! so mounted between. the standards that depression of the hand-grip serves both to rock the holder about its axis and to move the axis of rotation of the holder forwardly. By

sition such that a record may beremoved by a forward movement of the hand, the holder also being somewhat projected from the front of the cabinet to render the selection of a record more easy. Also, preferably each holder or unit is mounted on a sliding tray which is moved forwardly a limited distance by the same manipulation. of the hand-grip which advances and oscillates the holder relative to the tray. The combined move-.

9 and 10 therethrough.

are mounted in supporting slots in the stand ards, extending in a rather fiat curve from front to back. Each side plate of the holder is also provided with a guiding pin mounted in a second curved slot in the adjacent;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan.1, 1918.

.my inventionmay behad, attention is hereby directed to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification andv illustrating certain embodiments of my invention. In the drawings Figure 1 represents a fIOIltzQlEVfltlOIl of a cabinet with the front wall partly broken away to show a number of my improved record filing units mounted therein, Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cabinet taken on line 22 of Fig. 1,

showing oneof the units in side elevation, Fig. 3 1s a vertical section taken through one of the units inside a side plate of the same, Fig.4 is a horizontal section taken on line 4.fl-of Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 represents a detail Referring to the drawings, a number of units :1, 1 are represented as mounted in a cabinet 2 having a front door 3. Each unit comprises atray 4: slidably mounted on the bottom of the cabinet by means of screws 5 extending upwardly from the bottom' of the ;.cabinet through slots 6 in the tray, so that the latter isv free to move forward and back the length of slots 6, said screws 5 having washers 7 above the slots. The tray 4 may be formed of sheet-metal and preferably has the standards 8 formed integraltherewith. These standards 8 mounted at or rising from each side of a tray each have curved slots Each holder comprises a pair of sheetmetal side plates 11, 11 which are curved to the arc of a circle at their lower edges and preferably are given straight upper edges 12 a short distance above the center of curvature of the side plates, so that disk records placedtherein may extendout of the holder beyond the edges .12. The tray L -is prefprovided with an index tab 24 .at oneedge,

holder.

erably provided with a front flange 13 which may be grasped if desired to draw the tray forwardly.

The side plates 11 of each unit are held in position by a number of cross-bars 14: extending'between the-same, a pair of which bars designated 14:, 14: extend through the edges of the side plates adjacent to the straight upper edges 12 thereof. A metal .strip15 is preferably frictionally. mounted on'rods 1 1, 1 1 to hold the records in each holder closely together invertical position, regardless of the number of records in the The desired frictional contact of strip'l5 with rods .14 may be provided by ,securing a sleeve 16 to strip l5-at each. end

of the latter, these sleeves bearingfric- .tionall-y upon rods 14L.

Each side plate 11 is provided with a pivot pin or screw 17 extending outwardly from the side plate in the line of the .axis

,of; rotation thereof through the curvedsupporting slot 9 of the adjacent standard 8. Each side plate is also provided with a guiding pin 18 extending through the slot 10 of the adjacent side plate, pins 17 and 18 being provided with heads or washers on the outer sides of the standards. Slots 9 extend from front toback in a rather flat curve, movement of'the pins 17 forwardly in the slots advancing the axis of the. holder forwardly. Pins 18' are mounted in line with each other,

near the lower edges. of the side plates 11 and the'curvature of'slots 10 in which they travel 13 so chosen as to cause-a partial rotation of the holder about its axis during. the movement'of-pins 17 in their slots 9. Slots- 9 may be referred to as supporting slots, :and slots 10 as cam-curved guiding slots,

the function of the latter being to guide the pins 18 during the movement of pins 17, the

slots 10 constituting in effect cams with which pins 18 cooperate. Each holder is provided with'a finger-grip 19 constituting part of a front frame 20 secured to the side plates 11 of the unit, a name or designating card 21 being secured in each frame 20. Index or division sheets 22 may be mounted within the holder and adapted'to separate the records 23. Each index. sheet 22 may be the tabs of the different indexfsheetsbeing spaced from each other in the usual manner.

It will be evident that my inventionprovides a mounting for the holder such that a forward and downward pressure upon the hand-grip, or a forward pull upon the oscillatory structure itself, causes an advance of the holder into forward position and a partial rotation of the holder. The holder is shownin Fig. 2 in depressedposition, in dotted lines, in which the identifying tabs on the index sheets are shown as projected for- 'wardly out of the cabinet, a desired record being removable by an approximately hori-' zontal movement as the same is drawn forwardly by the, thumb and finger above the front frame 20 of the holder. The amount of rotation and forward advance of each holder is, of course, limited by the length of travel of pins 18 and 17 in their slots 10 and 9 and the forward movement of the tray 4. It will be noted that the arrangement is such that each holder is in balance in eachposition. Forward and downward pressure upon the finger 19 also serves to draw trayiiforwardly the length of its slots 6, the result of which is to place the holder in a forward depressedvpo'sition in advance of that shown in dotted lines in Fig. S2, the

dotted line. position being that. of the" holder when. the tray has not been advanced. The tray and standard-'8 arealso shown in. this figure in dotted lines in theiriforward position, the corresponding position of 'the holder not being shown.

TWhile I consider: the construction, involving the pins, and: slots described as the. best I adapted for my:-purpose,.it .isobvious that my. invention. includesequivalentaneans for causing the downward swinging of thefront edge of the holder at thesame time that. the

axis of thesameis: advanced. :The division sheets 22 are preferably held in place byproviding notches -.in the edges thereof, vwith which rods.11-,-1 1cooperate.

jHaving described-my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire. to; secure by "Letters Patent of the United States is:

I1. In a: filing-;idevice,- the combinationuof a .supp ort,- a tray:slidably mounted thereon for a limited :movement forward and back, a

pair of-standards mountedon saidtraypand a holder ;-pivotally mounted between i said standards, comprisingxa pair. of: side plates and cross 1 bars :connecting said plates: ad-

jacent the edges thereof, each side plate having-a pair of pins and each adjacent standard having-a pair of slots. comprising a supporting slot-rand a cam-curved guiding a slot coacting with said pins so arranged: that oscillation of said holder both rotates the same about a horizontal .axis and advances its center of rotationbetween saidstandards, said holder having a I hand :grip for both oscillating said holder and advancing -.,said

tray, substantially asset: forth.

'2. In a record:- filing device, the combinationof a =pair=of standards, .and :a' holder also having other. pins extending therefrom -anfdsaid standards having :curved guiding slots in which said last-named pins travel, so arranged as to cause continuous and regular circular movement of said holder about its axis as said pivot pins advance on their tracks, said holder being adapted to rotate through an arc of approximately 90 While said pivot pins travel from one end to the other of said tracks so that records may be removed from the holder abovesaid front frame, in the depressed and forward posi- 10 tion of the latter, by an approximately horizontal movement, substantially as set forth. This specification signed and witnessed this 22nd day of June, 1915.

GEORGE E. BENDER. Witnesses:

JosEPH TEAL, H. H. MECHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

., Washington, I). G. 

